Yes, `cloc` on a fresh checkout of fish-shell says there's 200k lines, but most of that isn't fish-shell source. Fully half of that is from PCRE. And if I run `cloc` on just the `src` directory I get 39k lines.
A: 'cloc' on a fresh checkout of fish-shell says there's 200k lines.
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Using just the `src` tree doesn't cut it imo, especially for fish, it installs lots of python scripts (fish_configure which sets up a python webserver, fish_update_completions which calls create_manpage_completions.py.. etc). Those count, and they are not included inthe src tree.
Or to put it another way, running `cloc` on the full checkout is extremely misleading. You're counting PCRE and other stuff that aren't particularly relevant to talking about shell complexity. Find the specific folders you do care about (which I still maintain is just the src/ folder) and run `cloc` on those specific folders, not on the full checkout.